Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Alexis Tadié and Daniel O’Quinn
I Classical Lineages
Chapter 1: “What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650-1800”
Frans De Bruyn, Université d’Ottawa
Chapter 2: “Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters”
Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph
Chapter 3: “Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity”
Ashley Cohen, Georgetown University
II Sporting Animals and their Uses
Chapter 4: “Turf Wars: Violence, Politics and the Newmarket Riot of 1751”
Richard Nash, University of Indiana-Bloomington
Chapter 5: “Animals as Heroes of the Hunt”
Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, State University of New York
Chapter 6: “Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: from Anglophilia to Arabomania"
Philip Dine, National University of Ireland, Galway
III The Mediation of Sports
Chapter 7: “Sport and the Body Politics: Athletic Competitions in Rousseau’s Republican Theory”
Ourida Mostefai, Brown University
Chapter 8: “Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency”
John Whale, University of Leeds
Chapter 9: “At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period”
Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University
IV The Sporting Body
Chapter 10: “Sports, Recreation and Medicine in 16th to 18th Century Italy and France”
Laurent Turcot, Université de Québec à Trois-Rivières
Chapter 11: “Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the 17th and 18th Cneturies”
Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, Université Paris 8
Chapter 12: “The Physical Powers of Man:” The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century”
Alexis Tadié, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Chapter 13: “What is training?”
Alexander Regier, Rice University
Coda
“Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: the ambiguous origins of mountaineering in India”
Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
